From S Reed.

IN 2004 my wife and I came to Jersey. My father had been that year and told us how great it was. We came back in 2008.

You have no Sunday trading, which is great. To walk around St Helier on a peaceful Sunday morning, I’ve learned to hate what is happening in the UK. They want every day to be the same.

You have a low crime rate. You had some houses broken into and people going into houses where the doors weren’t locked last year. If you catch them, treat them very firmly. Don’t be soft on any criminals as they have in the UK.

To see motorbikes with no locks is very unusual to me. Hull, where I’m from, has had some of the worst car crime and theft from houses in the UK.

This is only because successive governments have made law and order a low priority. The MPs have such good security they have no idea what it’s like to live in the real world in Britain today.

The criminals are walking free and the householders are locked in their houses with all manner of alarms fitted.

Also, your streets are clean, there is very little litter and no graffiti. In Hull you can go down a main road and every shop has its shutter covered in graffiti. People’s front walls get pushed over just for fun.

You also have sensible drinking laws. Keep them. Last December a woman aged 52 was going to work at 5.20 am in Hull when she was attacked and raped by two men who had been drinking for 24 hours.

The people of Jersey we found to be very friendly. It was like going back to England 30 years ago, but with 21st century technology.

117 Brooklands Road,
Springbank West,
Hull,
HU5 5AT.